Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will go down for 12 hours of maintenance later this week.

The maintenance will begin January 17 at 4pm GMT and run until 4am GMT on January 18. Users who are signed in when maintenance begins will be able to continue playing online. The following services will be unavailable for the duration:

PlayStation Store

Account Management

Account Registration

Transactions via consoles

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